The Right To Live And The Right To Bear Arms

By Tom Knighton

Anyone who has debated the Second Amendment on social media has probably been told that their right to own a gun doesn’t supersede someone else’s right to live. The argument, they make, is that your ability to purchase a firearm is somehow a threat to their very existence, thus your right needs to be curtailed.

However, that’s not even close to being accurate.

Now, do they have a right to live? Of course. It’s one of those inalienable rights that the Constitution didn’t bother to protect because it was too obvious to warrant it. Their right to live isn’t up for debate.

Yet their right to live doesn’t empower anyone to supersede your rights.

For example, there’s no lawful way someone can compel you do donate a vital organ like a heart or even something like a lung or kidney without your consent. To do so would violate your rights, even if that violation might save someone else’s life. That other person’s right to life doesn’t supersede your rights as an individual.

Now, most would willingly donate an organ they could live without if it would save another. It happens fairly regularly, particularly with kidneys, because people genuinely want to help others. The key part …Read the Rest

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